Новости за 02.01.2020

EXCLUSIVE: Bong Joon Ho’s twisty and shifting Parasite became an instant favorite this awards season immediately after it won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The South Korean film, released in the U.S. via Neon, is a clear frontrunner for this year’s International Feature Oscar, with pundits seeing the pic’s crossover potential in […]

On Judy, costume designer Jany Temime sought to capture a duality that existed within Judy Garland—the strength and raw talent of an iconic American performer, as well as the weakness that manifested toward the end of her career. “It’s not a nice, little Hollywood anecdote about Judy Garland. It’s the reason she became what she […]

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, The Irishman, Dolemite Is My Name and Late Night are among the film nominees for the 35th Artios Awards, the Casting Society of America announced Thursday. “The art of casting for film continued to shine this year, as represented in this noteworthy list of projects. Joining our television and […]

Female filmmakers had a banner year in 2019, “reaching recent historic highs,” according to the latest “Celluloid Ceiling” report out of San Diego State University. The annual study, now in its 22nd year, found that women comprised 20% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 100 domestic grossing […]

It’s official: former HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler has closed an exclusive deal with Apple TV+ for his newly launched Eden Productions. Under the five-year pact, he will develop and produce original series, feature films and documentaries for Apple through Eden. Plepler, who exited HBO at the end of February after three decades, had […]

Marvel Studios President and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige says the Disney-owned superhero factory will introduce its first transgender big-screen character and it will be in one of the feature films that has already begin filming. During a New York Film Academy Q&A event on Wednesday an audience member asked Hollywood’s most prolific hitmaker if […]

Fox’s dancing dating show Flirty Dancing aired its second episode Wednesday following its solid sneak-peek premiere, and it came stumbling with two left feet. The reality series hosted by Jenna Dewan dipped six tenths from its possibly NFL-inflated Sunday night debut with a 0.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 1.81 million viewers in its time-slot […]

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman won Best Picture on Thursday at the 24th annual Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival in Italy. The Netflix mob epic scored six overall wins at the just-ended festival, tied for the most with Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino won Best Director at the fest, which […]

Quentin Tarantino, Lulu Wang, and Steven Canals have been named this year’s recipients for the 15th Annual Final Draft Awards, which will take place at Paramount Studios on January 21, 2020 in a ceremony hosted by comedy duo Randy and Jason Sklar. Academy Award winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino will be presented with the Hall of Fame […]

Endeavor said Thursday it has acquired a majority equity ownership stake in On Location Experiences, the high-end experiential hospitality company. The deal, which has been in the works for a while, is thought to be for around $650 million-$700 million. On Location, originally a part of the NFL, has been privately held since 2015 by […]

Early morning estimates show Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker crossing the $400 million mark stateside with $407.8M after a New Year’s Day of $17.2M. That take bests the New Year’s Day cash of The Last Jedi ($14.2M), and isn’t that far from Rogue One‘s New Year’s Day of $16.75M.  Among the highest grossing New Year’s Day ticket […]

Netflix has unveiled the official title and premiere date for their previously announced C.J. Walker project starring Octavia Spencer. The four-part limited series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker will debut on the streaming platform March 20. Netflix also released the first look at Spencer as the iconic figure in history. In […]

Good morning! Wake up!! As time is reckoned in Hollywood, this is “O-minus 38”—that is, 38 days to the Oscar ceremony. The nominations balloting begins today. Also beginning is what might be the roughest, toughest, most tangled, and fastest five-and-a-half weeks in the living memory of the American mass media. In the opening moments of […]

EXCLUSIVE: All3Media has set up a comedy entertainment production company with two former top Fremantle executives, Deadline understands. I hear that the British superindie has established Great Scott Media with Leon Wilson, who previously ran The X Factor and Got Talent production company Talkback Thames, and Ed Sleeman. The pair left the Fremantle label earlier […]

The BBC pulled off something pretty remarkable on Christmas Day. In an age where traditional television viewing has been blown apart by streaming, the British broadcaster aired the UK’s most-watched TV show since 2010. For this, it can thank James Corden and his writing partner Ruth Jones, who revived their smash hit comedy Gavin & […]

Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative have wasted no time in the new year when it comes to keeping tabs on diversity in Hollywood. On Tuesday morning, they released a new research brief that revealed 10.6% of the directors of 2019’s top movies were women. This marks a watershed moment as […]

BBC One lined up some big gun dramas to begin 2020, but Dracula and Doctor Who did not convert into remarkable audiences for the British broadcaster. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ retelling of Bram Stoker’s legendary story of a blood-sucking count from Transylvania was a jewel in the crown of BBC One’s holiday schedule. The […]

UPDATED with more dates, series: The 2019-20 TV season has hit the winter midway point, so with a new year and a new decade upon us, here’s our annual list of midseason premiere dates for new and returning series. The list covers more than 200 broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting from today through March […]

All those Hollywood New Year’s Eve parties might as well have keep the lights on as they will be followed closely by the annual shindigs surrounding the 77th Golden Globe Awards. NBC will air them live Sunday at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT at the Beverly Hilton, with Ricky Gervais returning to host. The ceremony […]

David Stern, the former commissioner of the National Basketball Association who helped fuel the sport’s popularity in overseas markets and among women, has died. Stern died as a result of a brain hemorrhage he suffered approximately three weeks ago. His death was announced by the NBA. His wife, Dianne, and their family were with him at […]

Fans took to social media on New Year’s Eve to remind ABC censors of the mess they made when they went away and bleeped the performance of Alanis Morissette’s signature song, “You Oughta Know,” during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest. Morissette joined the cast of the Broadway play Jagged Little Pill, […]

It was clear the place to be on New Year’s Eve was at ABC, as they conquered Tuesday night ratings by ringing in 2020 with  Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. The traditional two-part New Year’s Eve celebration won all 6 half-hours of primetime. Part 1 of the special earned a 1.9 […]